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M.I.A.'s Real Baby Name Revealed

After Sri Lankan-born rapper M.I.A. lambasted the media for reporting her baby boy's name was Ickitt, it turns out that the kid is actually named ... Ikhyd. Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, to be specific.

It's unclear where Ikhyd comes from, but Arular is the title of M.I.A.'s first album, as well as her father's old political codename, while Bronfman is father Benjamin Brewer's real surname, and Edgar comes from Brewer's father.

After reports that the baby was named Ickitt, the rapper took to her MySpace page to say "MY BABY IS NOT CALLED ICKITT, PICKIT OR LICKIT," followed by references to other bizarrely named celebrity spawn before signing off, ""LOTS OF LOVE, STICKIT!!" We understand there's a difference between the spellings, but it seems like the same argument Vanilla Ice used to say the music for 'Ice Ice Baby' was totally different from David Bowie and Queen's 'Under Pressure.'

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brianna

i dont have a problem with the name unless he grows up and has a problem with it. as long as hes pretty and not ugly, im a.o.k with everything about the baby and the mother. u ppl shud do the same... maybe not..

June 12 2009 at 11:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Death Mongers

Idiot.

June 12 2009 at 3:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikki

She named the baby a name that reflected her culture, my parents are from india, my name is Nikitha and I am deeply in tune with my culture. And if you don't like a long baby name, then in M.I.A's words STICKIT!

April 26 2009 at 10:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SouljaGurl10178

Why did she name her child something like that????!!!!
She probably wanted it to be unique, but that's not exactly unique. It's far out.

March 28 2009 at 8:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
melky

she would be th eone to give her child a crazy name and then if thats not enough give it a really long name!!!

March 26 2009 at 9:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply